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Software Design with John Ousterhout

Legacy Code Rocks

CHAPTER

The Importance of Unit Testing in Software Engineering

Stanford doesn't have a software engineering course per se at Stanford. It might fit into that, but there's no course right now where if it's in our courses tend to be organized around what we think of as key conceptual areas. So I think unit testing is not hard to learn the basics. It's pretty simple, easy to learn. And so I think it's something once you get out of college to go off in a job, you should be able to pick it up pretty quickly because there's not a lot of deep challenging conceptual stuff underneath it. Pretty much all test suites have the same kinds of basic functionality to them. Right.

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